4 Responses to Sunday Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Jesse Thomas, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Dennis Edwards (Temptations), and Dave Davies (The Kinks)

1. normanb February 4th, 2013 at 8:11 pm 1

   Yet another great selection! I love Papa was a Rolling Stone.

   My sister and I went to see and hear the Temptations and the 4 Tops at a great venue, the St. Pete Bay Front Center. Fantastic concert. The bass singers had a sing-off/duet. It wasn’t really a contest: It wouldn’t be fair: That Temptations bass guy was way down in the basement. (Both singers have passed by now.) Remembering the show makes me want to call my sister.

   I saw the Kinks when “Captain America” was a big hit for them. To get into the mood, I got so extra-Cannabinated that I had to write a poem about it. Not about the concert, just about the way it felt.

   The concert was good too. Here’s the recipe.
   Poppin’ Fresh Danishes, take 2 of them, wrap each of them around a gram of hash. Bake them. Spread the provided icing on them. They still taste terrible. Wash them down with a glass of milk.

   Two hours later the concert in the mind starts, so everything must be timed just so, such that the actual music starts approximately the same time as the music in the mind.

   If I closed my eyes, it felt like I was falling, fast. If I opened my eyes, it felt and looked like I landed hard. I then realized that eating two grams of Hashish is just like sailing the Baltic Sea.

   Sailing the Baltic by Norman B (“Deviations from the Norm”)

   You’re eating a Danish
   And it’s tasting Swedish;
   You’re going this-a-way and that-a-way,
   Lithuanian, Latvian;
   You start Russsian;
   And before you’re Finnish,
   You won’t Norwegian is up.

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2. normanb February 4th, 2013 at 8:13 pm 2

   Correction:

   Sailing the Baltic by Norman B (“Deviations from the Norm”)

   You’re eating a Danish
   And it’s tasting Swedish;
   You’re going this-a-way and that-a-way,
   Lithuanian, Latvian,
   You’re getting Estonian,
   You start Russsian,
   And before you’re Finnish,
   You won’t Norwegian is up.

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3. normanb February 4th, 2013 at 8:20 pm 3

   In response to normanb @ 2

   (p)(c)2013 Norman Schulerud Bie, Jr. All rights reserved.

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4. normanb February 4th, 2013 at 8:21 pm 4

   In response to normanb @ 3

   Originally written in 1979.

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